Claude Cowork Gets Scheduled Tasks, 13 Enterprise Plugins, and a Plugin Marketplace

Anthropic held its “The Briefing: Enterprise Agents” virtual event on February 24, and the Cowork updates were substantial. Scheduled tasks, a plugin marketplace, 13 new enterprise plugins, and connectors for Google Workspace, DocuSign, and a dozen other services.

Here’s what changed and what it means for people actually using Claude Cowork.

Scheduled Tasks

This is the feature that changes how Cowork fits into a daily workflow. You can now set up tasks that Claude runs automatically on a recurring cadence, not just when you manually kick them off.

To create one, type /schedule in any Cowork task, or click “Scheduled” in the left sidebar. You pick the frequency, describe what you want done, and Cowork handles the rest on schedule.

The obvious use cases: daily report generation, weekly data pulls, recurring email drafts, periodic file organization. Anything you do on a predictable rhythm, you can hand off.

There’s one significant limitation. Scheduled tasks only run while your computer is awake and the Claude Desktop app is open. This isn’t a cloud service running in the background. If your laptop is closed at 6 AM when your daily brief is supposed to generate, it won’t run until you open it.

For people who need true always-on automation, something like n8n or a custom MCP setup will still serve better. But for desk-hours workflows where you’re already at your machine, scheduled tasks remove a lot of manual repetition.

13 New Enterprise Plugins

Plugins first arrived on January 30 with 11 open-source templates covering productivity, search, sales, finance, legal, marketing, and more. The Feb 24 update adds 13 new enterprise-focused plugins spanning specific departments:

• HR for job descriptions, onboarding materials, and offer letters
• Design for design system management and asset workflows
• Engineering for technical documentation and code review processes
• Operations for process tracking and workflow management
• Financial Analysis, Investment Banking, Equity Research, Private Equity, Wealth Management for specialized finance workflows
• Brand Voice (built by Tribe AI) for consistent messaging

Each plugin bundles skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents into a package that turns Claude into a specialist for a particular role. Everything is file-based, so plugins are easy to build, edit, and share.

Plugin Marketplace

Enterprises can now build private plugin marketplaces. Admins get a unified “Customize” menu that consolidates plugins, skills, and connectors for centralized management. The key admin capabilities:

• Organization-specific marketplaces
• Private GitHub repositories as plugin sources (currently in private beta)
• Per-user provisioning and auto-install
• OpenTelemetry support for tracking usage, costs, and tool activity

This is Anthropic’s answer to the question of how you standardize AI workflows across a company. Instead of every team member configuring Claude differently, admins can push approved plugins to everyone.

New Connectors

The connector list grew significantly. New additions include:

• Google Workspace (Calendar, Drive, Gmail)
• DocuSign
• Apollo, Clay, Outreach (sales tools)
• Similarweb (market intelligence)
• MSCI, FactSet, LSEG, S&P Global (financial data)
• LegalZoom, Harvey (legal)
• WordPress (content management)

The finance connectors are worth noting. FactSet and MSCI integrations mean Claude can pull real market data into analysis workflows instead of working from stale context.

Multi-App Orchestration

Cowork can now work across Excel and PowerPoint in a research preview. Claude handles end-to-end tasks and passes context between applications, so you can go from data analysis in a spreadsheet to a presentation without manually copying results between tools.

Who Gets Access

Cowork is available on all paid Claude plans: Pro ($20/mo), Max ($100 and $200/mo), Team ($30/user/mo), and Enterprise. The new plugins and connectors are rolling out across these tiers. The admin marketplace features are geared toward Team and Enterprise customers.

What This Means

The scheduled tasks and plugin marketplace are the two features that matter most here. Scheduled tasks turn Cowork from something you actively use into something that works for you in the background (while your computer is on, at least). The marketplace gives organizations a way to control and distribute AI workflows at scale.

Anthropic started Cowork as a research preview in January. Six weeks later, they’re shipping enterprise admin tools, department-specific plugins, and connectors for major business platforms. The pace suggests they see Cowork as central to their enterprise strategy, not a side project.

Full details are in the Anthropic enterprise plugins blog post and the Cowork help center. You can also watch the full Enterprise Agents briefing.